Letter: Trump's troubling lack of truthfulness

In Jim Posmer's recent letter, I guess I fall into the category of “I can’t stand [Donald] Trump,” [“One-sided judgement of Trump," July 12].

I listen to him just long enough to re-affirm my conviction that he’s leading us toward a dictatorship.

I’ve heard enough of his boasts and lies during the year-and-a-half of his campaign. Every one of the so-called liberal media channels and the conservative cable channels aired most of Trump’s speeches; these speeches were live and were not doctored to suit the so-called liberal media.

I saw and heard Trump tell lies, another after another, to name a few: “Obama wire tapped me.” “Obama created ISIS.” “I know more about the military than the generals.” “I’m going to repeal Obamacare my first day in office.” “I alone can fix it.” “Climate change is a Chinese hoax.” “I saw thousands and thousands of Muslims cheering when the towers came down.” And on and on and on.

I don’t know what acting presidential is either, but I do know that Trump’s actions are not acting presidential, what previous presidents have done is in the past.

Trump is what we have at the present time. He and his biological family and his family of white male billionaire cabinet members are monetarily cashing in by being occupants of White House offices.

This hatred of Trump comes from the same place that the hatred of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton came from, except from the other side of the aisle.

In my lifetime I don’t recall America when it wasn’t great except the Great Depression when no one was great.